Regimental number | 3498 |
Place of birth | Adelaide, South Australia |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Occupation | Draper |
Address | 7 Dundas Place, Albert Park, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 34 |
Height | 5' 9" |
Weight | 156 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, A Whitelaw, 7 Dundas Place, Albert Park, Victoria |
Previous military service | Served in the Cadets, Launceston, for 18 months 20 years previously. |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 6th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/23/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 6th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 48 |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Taken on strength, 6th Bn, Serapeum, 22 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 25 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 30 March 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 1 May 1916; promoted Corporal, 19 January 1917; reverted to Pte at own request, 15 March 1917. Admitted to 1st Australian Field Ambulance, 3 July 1917 (pyorrhoea); transferred to 1st Division Rest Station, 3 July 1917; discharged to unit to duty, 17 July 1917; rejoined unit, 18 July 1917. On leave to United Kingdom, 1 August 1917; rejoined unit from leave, 14 August 1917. Admitted to 2nd Australian Field Ambulance, 1 September 1917 (venereal sores); transferred to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 1 September 1917 (syphilis); to 16th General Hospital, Le Treport, 3 September 1917; discharged to Base details, 18 September 1917; rejoined unit, 30 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |